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  1. Ralph 2 and Frozen 2 were such terrible movies. Strange World was better than both and that bombed. Will see Wish whenever it comes out on Disney+.
  2. Reworking a DTV series to a film doesn't seem like a good idea. They probably only did it after Wish tanked too, so they have less than a year. Iger is stealing a living.
  3. So where can I read a balanced and spoiler free analysis of the Marvels flopping? Context: Although it looked more of the same to me (and almost like Shazam 2 with cheesy gods appearing) that never stopped Marvel before. And I also disagree with the Reddit/Blu-Ray.com sentiment that post-EG has been worse than pre-EG since I've never been a diehard fanboy but a casual watcher throughout the whole series there are many, many average films pre-EG. The bigger issue is that post-EG films don't seem linked to a bigger story (not that they need to be) but having EG happen just destabilises them fundamentally. I also don't know why Ant Man 3 was so badly received since it was like 1 and 2 which were decent/enjoyable. My feelings haven't really been similar to the masses re: MCU for most films so it is peculiar as to what straw broke the camel's back. Disney+? Endgame being the ending? More right wing Americans?
  4. Yeah I hated DS2. But I also disliked Wandavision. They just destroyed her character for seemingly no good reason. And they've done the same here with Secret Invasion, killing Maria Hill and Talos, making Nick Fury a joke, rewriting Rhodey's history. Enough of this crap.
  5. I've lost interest after the trainwreck that was Secret Invasion. If that's the narrative direction they want to take this, count me out. Will put them on streaming in the background if I have nothing to do.
  6. It's another bullshit push from the know-nothings of Clown Street and their marionette CEOs. Ironic because the streaming mess was created by the same bunch of fools. But you'll never get grifters who depend on the failing capitalist system for their wealth to change course. Billionaires building/buying prepper bunkers is peak delusion of how they think global destruction will not affect them and they can somehow live out their days in peace.
  7. It's a dud of a movie honestly. The reviews are giving it undeserved credit. Didn't even feel like an MI movie, just another paint by numbers action flick.
  8. Seems like a Blue Sky movie in tone, but the animation looks a step up from Illumination's usual stuff.
  9. Why do people like yourself always like to resurrect the corpse of communism? Systems are not binary although the US political system tries to educate otherwise. The world as we know it is being driven to extinction and capitalism is the cause. There's no getting away from that.
  10. It's not like the characters are as iconic as Buzz and Woody. Plus you could always argue she's gone through puberty or going through puberty so the voices sound different. Don't even like Mindy Kaling anyway.
  11. This looks like Ruby Gillman - a low budget Dreamworks concept and movie.
  12. And he'll leave with golden parachutes. He's just another parasite.
  13. Americans are too propagandised to worship capitalism for that to happen. The world is already burning due to it and yet the majority still are wedded to it - not just ignorant blowhard conservatives.
  14. It was smart for the time, but like anything else, you need to evolve with the times. Pumping out an unlimited amount of Star Wars and Marvel would backfire eventually even if it didn't seem like it for a long while. The disdain Disney showed for their back catalogue (and Fox's back catalogue) has also come back to bite them. This is why copyright should never have been extended to what amounts to indefinitely these days - because let's face it, if it's 90 years after the author's death, most of the time copyright will outlive the entire audience. Plus with so many works being owned by corporations and not individuals, it makes even less sense than it used to. The original intent was to incentivise creativity and the length of the term now does the opposite of that.
  15. Anyone who uses the term 'woke' these days unironically is someone not worth listening to because they are just brainwashed parrots, regurgitating talking points their masters trained them to say on demand. That isn't even a sweeping statement, it's an objective truth. No objective thought crosses their minds in between the time they hear the command and when they spew it. Perhaps no thought at all.
  16. If they were upfront with the talent and their shareholders from the beginning, they probably wouldn't be in this mess. In fact, if they were, Netflix might still be the only game in town. But most probably Sarandos would not be as rich as he has become. He has it coming. It has never made sense to measure the success of a show/move on streaming based on sign ups. If you record bad data, you're going to make bad decisions. It's so elementary you wonder why Wall Street analysts and these studio executives have jobs at all. They seem wholly incompetent. Perhaps it doesn't even make financial sense at all. Kind of like how Spotify gives practically nothing to music artists. But even if it doesn't improve anything for writers/actors etc. it will pull the curtain down on the con Sarandos and others have been running. Once again, these parasites can only make the amount of money they do by exploiting others. Billionaires are system failures not aspirations. This also goes for all industries, but it may not be a clear cut as streaming/studios. I'd argue that them normalising streaming at these price points also is their fault. It made sense to them when they could obfuscate and not pay others, but perhaps it was never sustainable from the beginning. And even then, didn't they screw creatives over when home video first came about? I hope society wide there is blowback on this obscene concentration of ill-gotten wealth by the top. They don't deserve it and never did. Most of them deserve to be in jail.
  17. The studios/Netflix hiding their numbers reeks of social media firms like Facebook/Google hiding theirs or at least, reporting whatever metric suits them most. Lots of inflated crap data.
  18. Wow. Avatar 2 easily getting to #2nd of the year and $500m surprises me. It's a sequel to a movie with near zero longevity in the public consciousness but will comfortably beat all the other franchises. Not sure if climate change is part of the story again, but doing that in spite of the conservative backlash against that is also commendable. Thought it would only end up with $400m max and more likely $350m which it's past already/soon.
  19. This movie has been unfairly maligned. It's suffered from Disney killing animation with their straight to Disney+ or within a month BS, which severely hampers family movies and the ridiculous snowflake conservative backlash. Not sure either is easy to overcome now though. It's been 2 years+ of the former and 6 years+ of the latter. We'll have to see if Iger can make a difference in the former. For the latter, Americans better start to get a grip on the changing world around them. America is already an empire on the decline with the elites feasting as the country slides. Climate change will cause a reckoning sooner rather than later and unfettered capitalism is a death sentence.
  20. You can't make sweeping statements about the current crop of movies and then use Brave as the counter example lol. Seems like lots of people value their own anecdotal experiences very highly over a myriad of topics in the last few pages - or maybe that's how it's always been and I've forgotten that. Also find it ironic single people lecturing an actual parent with kids on what parents with kids are like and how they react and behave.
  21. It's not a curse as much as it is the new normal. Why are people still acting as though covid had/has no impact? There are people, whether you agree with them or not, who have not and maybe even will not return. I'm also quite surprised Dune will be WB's biggest hit this year. How did they manage to convince people to watch that in the cinemas and not everything else? In normal times you'd think it'd be outperformed by most everything else.
  22. Why the meltdown? It's clear that the theatrical market is not what it once was and yet NWH has already entered the top 20 all time. Did you all really think that it would challenge Endgame or TFA or whatever when there are demographics that still haven't returned to theatres? Shouldn't the performance of WSS/Sing 2 etc. show you this? Weird. Also, why do people keep saying this movie will drive subscribers for any movie opening early digitally? I can guarantee that most movies will not do so. You really think Encanto will push people over? So since it's gonna be spending the rest of its life on Disney+, they really should not have rushed it. The most high profile animated film failing to make $100m is depressing for the medium's future.
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